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Health Communication Lab
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The lab uses empirical research to study communication between healthcare providers and patients, and between healthcare and society.
AboutAbout the lab
Empirical research on how health and medical care is communicated.
The Department of Health Communication studies communication in the health and medical field.
Using empirical research, the lab addresses topics such as how health and medical information is conveyed to society and how patients and healthcare providers communicate with each other.
At its research meetings, the lab discusses graduate students' research and reads English-language books and papers on health communication together.
Education is centered on the graduate school. Students can enter the programs in Public Health, Social Medicine, or Health Sciences and Nursing and conduct research in the lab.
Key terms
- Empirical research
- Research that tests whether an idea is correct, based on data collected through surveys or experiments
- Health literacy
- The ability to find, understand, and evaluate health and medical information, and to use it in one's own decisions and actions
- UMIN
- Short for University hospital Medical Information Network Center. It operates information systems for medical care and clinical research
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts empirical research on communication at many levels in the health and medical field. Its research is built on four pillars: how health and medical information is conveyed to society, communication between patients and healthcare providers, health literacy, and information systems for clinical and epidemiological research.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of full-time faculty, part-time lecturers, visiting researchers, collaborators inside and outside the university, and graduate students in the doctoral and professional master's programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakahiro KiuchiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorTsuyoshi OkuharaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorHiroko OkadaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorEiko GotoPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorRitsuko ShirabePublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorEmi FurukawaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorNaomi SawadaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorHikari Sophia NagaoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images.
- Top image: “Doctor talking with a patient” National Cancer Institute / Public domain (cropped)
- Communication in Health and Medicine: “Poster from the Japanese Ministry of Interior calls for public health awareness during Spanish Flu, 1920” Japanese Ministry of Interior / Public domain (cropped)
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